Creating a Negative Pickup to Slow Down the Player

Make player move like a turtle

Objective: create a negative powerup to make the player slower for 10 seconds

In this game I am using the same sprite and animation for all negative powerups. So the first step was to duplicate the hacked movement prefab, change the name and assign a new powerup ID.

In the player script I create a coroutine to change the speed of the player, wait 10 seconds and assign the original speed. Also created a public function to start the coroutine.

In the powerup script I added a new case to call the slow down function of the player.

In the unity editor I selected the spawn manager object and added the slow down prefab to the powerups array.

And good to go!!! Now the player loses speed when collects the new powerup.